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Anonymous
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track size
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Anonymous
on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:58 PM
Okay I have another question .This might seem like common knowledge to most but I need to know .When you say the track radius is 20' is it a circle of track 20' wide or 40' wide ?
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Anonymous
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April 2003
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Posted by
Anonymous
on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:04 PM
Blue Aster, A twenty foot radius means from center of a would be circle to the outside of the circle, meaning if you measured across the whole circle it would be 40 feet across. Radius X 2 = diameter
Carpenter matt
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whiterab
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October 2003
From: Hunt, Texas
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Posted by
whiterab
on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:28 PM
The confusion comes from the fact that every other scale uses radius as the standard for size curves. G-Scale has to be different. The general notation in G scale for track curve size is in diameters.
Will drive you crazy if you came from another scale.
Joe Johnson Guadalupe Forks RR
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Anonymous
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Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:47 PM
Yes. Most things here are given in diamiter unless otherwise mentioned, although everyone is different in what they do.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
on Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:50 PM
Okay , thanks . Now that the weather here in Chicago is starting to warm up I can go out in the yard and start planing a little now .
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